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(Joe Burbank, Orlando Sentinel )

July 15, 2011|By Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board

An Orlando state representative has filed a bill that would make it a crime for jurors to sell their stories before a nine-month cooling-off period. It also would be a crime for media outlets to try and make such an arrangement with a juror before the nine months was up. The bill was filed after a juror in the Casey Anthony trial hired a publicist to sell media interviews for a reported $50,000 fee. What do you think? Should jurors have to wait before they can sell their stories? Or does that violate their right to free speech? Talk about it!